We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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